Worth purchasing extended warranty or service plan? Volvo XC90

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If I’m buying a three year old car, I’m buying a car with CPO warranty, so your left over factory warranty means noting

It is better than a CPO warranty. Those are after-market.

Those are manufacturer warranties issued by manufacturers

https://www.bmwusa.com/certified-preowned.html

https://www.lexus.com/lcertified/certification-warranty

https://www.hondacertified.com/certified-preowned-benefits

The term "after-market" means it was sold or put in place after the car has been titled, registered and used. It is not the same as an original factory warranty which is what you get when you buy the warranty from the manufacturer at the time of initial sale. It doesn't matter who you buy your CPO warranty from.

It actually does. A manufacturer CPO is functionally the same as an original warranty. A third party warranty can end up being a enormous pain if you have to get reimbursed after the fact and fight for OEM or local labor rates

I agree. But that has no bearing on whether it is after-market or not. That has to do with whether it is worth it or not.

[Anonymous]

We bought the prepaid maintenance package for our Xc60 5 years ago and are glad we did. Volvo maintenance is expensive and we have definitely saved money with it.

[Anonymous]

Can't speak to Volvo. But have had 2 range rovers and got an extended warranty to 100k on both of them. They cost 2500 and 5000. One rr was bought in 2009 the other in 2016. The 2009 had almost 24k worth of work covered between 50-100k, and the 2016 had 6k of work covered. So both paid for themselves but to varying degrees. Fwiw--both rr are still running, one has 240k on it and the other has 165k, and both became a lot cheaper to own after 100k and we stopped taking them to the dealer for service.